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A field trip to the airport

A field trip to the airport
Is it the morning? No, like THE MORNING? The morning when I go to Rishikesh? Naw. It was the 12th, but we never made it.

Waking up in the morning at 6:00 am on a Saturday? Not a chance. But I have to. I quickly re checked the contents of my suit case and backpack and quickly gobbled up my cheerios. We were going to be late but we finally sat in the car and drove off to school. I was the first one from my class there. Slowly my classmates trickled in and we were pretty soon all there. 
There were a 160 children along with 20 teachers going this year. So you can imagine the ruckus. When we reached Chatrapati Shivaji airport, you could imagine the scene. 160 children for check-in and security =dead meat.
We then sat down comfortably and took up one full section. We were there for 8 hours. You may imagine the airport authorities.

So basically our flight got cancelled. After 8 hours, the guys said- Your flight got cancelled. Come back tomorrow. just that. Nothing else. non.


 Apparently, a military aircraft had attempted to land on the runway and then the tire burst. Ka-booooom. They had no apparatus to remove the plane. The runway was blocked  and no more planes were allowed to land. The machines would come from Agra and the runway would be cleared by 10:00 pm. We were sent back home and our flight was shifted to the next day. Everyone dejected, we went back home.

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5 replies on “A field trip to the airport”

Oh wow. I can only imagine the airport authorities. 160 kids. they would have been like lets go personally push the plane off the runway to get these kids out of here!!!

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